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robgolding

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About robgolding

Django dev, engineer at Zapier.

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    Comment #25822223

    Came here to post this same link but you beat me to it! Big Clive's videos are brilliant—highly recommend his channel to anyone remotely interested in electricity/electronics.

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    Comment #25343111

    Andrew’s & Arnold (UK-based ISP) actually are compliant with XKCD 806! https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/why-choose-aaisp/

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    Comment #25343005

    My ISP actually supports this[0], though I haven’t had cause to use it yet - they are also very reliable! [0]: https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/why-choose-aaisp/

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    Comment #23445167

    This is a fantastic and well-written guide, thank you! I recently wrote a toy caching DNS proxy in Elixir, and I have a question which I’ve never been able to figure out. Individua…

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    Comment #20054979

    1Password for Mac allows you to do this also.

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    Comment #19846094

    Agreed. I've used Vim as my editor for as long as I can remember, and combine it with make if a project needs some kind of compilation or post-processing step. The flexibility of u…

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    Comment #13721850

    We noticed this affecting tens of thousands of users on Zapier last night, causing us to wonder if we'd shipped a critical bug. Zaps using Google apps are still paused[0] while we …

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    Comment #10893556

    We have considered this actually, and I think it will be something we look into more as our scale increases. As you say, we already have the communication infrastructure in place v…

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    Comment #10893542

    We haven't evaluated RQ specifically, since RabbitMQ is a core part of our infrastructure and we're really happy with it. We have experienced the pain of managing Celery, and consi…

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    Comment #9776895

    Zapier supports RSS for both triggers and actions, so you can combine feeds together using multiple Zaps. Also, you can run arbitrary code to manipulate data in any way you like us…

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    Comment #7728068

    I'm the tech lead on the team that runs http://police.uk , the UK Police crime mapping website, and our data is available to download and through an API at http://data.police.uk . …

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    Comment #4427086

    Check out the first commit to this project: https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition/commit/fcb103e966f777...

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    Comment #4316923

    In few years he bang the world wide web with good computer ethical hacking articles!

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    Comment #4265329

    That simulation is absolutely fascinating. I knew hybrid cars were packed with loads of advanced electronic tech, but the use of epicyclic gears as the PSD is pretty cool.

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